Landscape Transformed

For want of a better term, landscape transformed focuses primarily on the former high-level North Channel Bridge in Cornwall ON and the visual impact of its demolition. This character-defining engineering feature dominated the Cornwall landscape for over half-a-century is now gone replaced by a low-level utilitarian structure. In a remarkable transformation the massive 1.6 km structure disappeared and the character of the area was drastically altered. The demolition work itself was another fascinating aspect of the transformation of the landscape.

This was the highest point of the 1.6 km North Channel Bridge where it crossed the old Cornwall Canal. When the bridge was built in the early 1960s this massive span reflected was an important feature of a contingency plan to reopen the old canal in the event that Canadian-American relations turned sour and the Americans closed the newly finished waterway.